Taylor Swift and Rolling Stones drive Christmas surge in UK vinyl sales

More than 250,000 vinyl data have been bought final week, probably the most because the turn of the century

Vinyl data have been a surprise hit this Christmas, with weekly sales within the UK soaring to their highest degree this century through the festive buying period, fuelled by artists including Taylor Swift, Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

The vinyl record resurgence, with a new era of music lovers turning to retro codecs similar to LPs and cassettes, has fuelled a gross sales surge to their highest annual level since Elton John’s Sacrifice and Vanilla Ice’s Ice Ice Child topped the charts in 1990.